Handle for files and other tools



' (N0 Model.)

J.VF. FRENCH.

HANDLE POR'FILES AND OTHBR'TOOLS. i

Patented Oct. z. 1883.

N Mauren Sterns JOSIAH F. FRENCH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HANDLE FOR FILES AND OTHER T'ooLs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,987, dated October2,1883. Application tiled August 24,1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, Josine: F. FRENCH, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovementsin Handles for Files and other rIools, of which thefollowing is aspecification.

My invention consists of'a handle constructed for secure attachment tothe tang or stem of a ile or other tool,` substantially as describedhereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view, mainly in section, anddrawn to an enlarged scale, of my improved handle for files and othertools; Fig. 2, a view showing the tang Aof a file or other tool preparedfor attachment to the handle; Fig. 3, a transverse section of Fig. l onthe line l 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view, illustrating a modification ofmy invention; and Fig. 5, a view showing the application of the handleto a iile or other tool which has no abrupt shoulder.

Into an orifice in the wooden portion A of the handle is driven ainetaltube, B, made, preferably, of cast-iron annealed, a portionof the tubebeing made octangular in the present instance, as shown in Fig. 3, toprevent it from turning in the orilice, but the tube may have a fin, andmay be otherwise constructed externally to prevent it from turning. The

tube B is contracted and threaded internally at x, and is adapted tothat portion of the tang I) of a iile or other tool which hasparallellythreaded edges m m, as shown in Fig. 2, a feature which formsno part of niy present invention, and which I do not claim in this application, as it forms the subject of an application for a patent filedby me August 27 ,1883, Serial No. 104,858. The tube B has a flange, a,which is in contact with the end of' the wooden portion of the handle,and into the latter is driven and secured a ferrule, G, having aninternal circular fiange, b, between which and the outer end of tube Bintervenes the flange h of the ring H, the latter projecting beyond theend ofthe ferrule.

In screwing the above-described handle to its place thc tube serves as anut and the outer edge of' the ring H will be brought to bearon theshoulder m m of the tang, and in tightening the handle the ring will notturn, but the end of the tube willV bear and turn, against the small endof the ring, the latter thus serving as a washer when the finaltightening takes place.

The object ofthe internal flange, b, of the ferrule in conjunction withthe flange h of' the ring is to permanently connect the latter to thehandle, and this may be done in ways other than that described. Forinstance, the ring H may be without a flange, as shown in Fig. 4, and apin or pins, w, may be passed through and secured to the ferrule andproject into a circular groove in the ring.

Vhatever plan may be adopted of` confn-h ing the ring H to the ferrulethe connection should be loose, as shown in the drawings, so that thehandle can be turned independently of the ring and so that the lattercan accomniodate itself to any inequalities on the shoulders of the fileand othertool.

I prefer to make a ball-and-socket bearing at the junction of the ringwith the end of the.

tube, a feature, however, which forms no part of niy present invention.The handle is not restricted in its vapplication to files or other toolshaving abrupt shoulders. It may be fitted, for instance, to afile orother tool having a tang, as shown in Fig. 5, in which case the ringwill bear against the tapering portion of' the tang. l

I claiin as my invention- A tool-handle in which a threaded tube, B,driven into the wooden portion of the handle, and a ferrule, G, securedto the same, are conibined with a ring, H, loosely connected to theferrule, substantially as set'forth.

In testimony'whereof' I have signed my name to this specication in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses.

JOSIAH F. FRENCH.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. AsHRNFRLTRR, HENRY HowsoN, Jr.

